What's On Stage Award nominations

Nominees include Charles Edwards (Strange Interlude) and Richard McCabe (The Audience) for Best Supporting Actor in a Play; Hayley Atwell (The Pride) for Best Actress in a Play; Ben Whishaw (Peter and Alice and Mojo) and James McAvoy (Macbeth) for Best Actor in a Play; Claudie Blakley (Chimerica) for Best Supporting Actress in a Play and Alex Jennings (Hymn) for Best Solo Performance. Rory Kinnear received two nominations - Best Actor in a Play for Othello and Best New Play for The Herd.

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Scene & Heard, BBC Radio

Patrons Hugh Bonneville and Sam West attended a performance of the Scene & Heard production Twist and Turn. Tweets:

@hughbon: "Fabulous eve with @exitthelemming & other proud patrons at http://t.co/8hJGUpU - 11 yr olds writing astonishing short plays."

@exitthelemming: "Beautiful evening at @SceneandHeardUK. Simon Scardifield played 10 parts. Countess of Wessex, @hughbon & other supporters v pleased & proud."

BBC Radio

• Claudie Blakley and Tony Haygarth are the readers for Words and Music "Idleness"
• Dan Stevens, Malcolm Sinclair and Tom Goodman-Hill star in the Drama on 3 A Thousand Kisses
• Sean Gallagher and Fenella Woolgar star in the Afternoon Play My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye
• Toby Jones reads the Book of the Week Ken Campbell: The Great Caper
• Matt Smith, Tamsin Greig and Alan Bennett will be guests on The 4 O'Clock Show
• Roger Allam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole and John Finnemore star in series 2 of Cabin Pressure {repeat}
• Alex Jennings and Imogen Stubbs star in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Samuel West - Equity elections. Film - Decoy Bride. Ruth Wilson - Theatre - A Streetcar Named Desire. Hayley Atwell. Theatre - The Pride. BBC Radio.

• Sam West is a candidate in the Equity 2010 elections (via The Stage) [link]
  
  
• David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald will star in the romantic comedy Decoy Bride [link]
  
  
• Pictures: Ruth Wilson behind-the-scenes of A Streetcar Named Desire and Hayley Atwell's headshot has been updated on her United Agents page ruth|hayley
  
  
• Andrea Riseborough will receive a Theatre World Award for The Pride [link]
  
  
• BBC Radio
• The late Corin Redgrave stars in the Drama on 3 Krapp's Last Tape {repeat} [link]
• John Gordon Sinclair and Sharon Horgan star in the Afternoon Play The Recordist [link]
• David Calder and Alex Jennings star in Scarlet on Black {repeat} [link]
• Rupert Graves and Michael Gambon star in the Drama on 3 Embers, directed by Stephen Rea {repeat} [link]
• Claudie Blakley and Lizzy Watts star in the Afternoon Play Cinders [link]
• Simon Russell Beale will be a guest on Feedback [link]

Television - Lennon Naked. Andrea Riseborough. Ruth Wilson - Television - Small Island. BBC Radio.

• Christopher Eccleston, Naoko Mori, Claudie Blakley, Rory Kinnear and Andrew Scott will star in the BBC4 one-off drama Lennon Naked [link]
• Andrea organised some performances at a Stepney pub for the launch of an arts charity [link]
• BBC Radio
• Ruth will promote Small Island on Loose Ends [link]
• Peter Capaldi and Emily Bruni will be doing Words and Music [link]
• Afternoon Plays
• Stephen Mangan and Rebecca Front star in Grey Expectations [link]
• Timothy Spall and Amanda Root star in A Dangerous Thing [link]
  
• Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and David Schneider star in Knowing Me, Knowing You produced by Armando Iannucci [link]
  
• Stephen Fry and John Bird star in Absolute Power [link]

Theatre - 24 Hour Plays. Television - The Thick of It. BBC Radio.

• Hattie Morahan joins the previously announced Ruth Wilson and Anna Maxwell-Martin in the 24 Hour Plays [link]
• The Thick of It
• Rebecca Front and Billy Sneddon interviews rebecca|billy
• Positive reviews of series 3 episode 1 1|2
• Armando Iannucci's "My Week" from the Guardian [link]
  
• BBC Radio
• Lia Williams, Hugh Bonneville and Katherine Parkinson star in the Drama on 3 The Lady From the Sea [link]
  
• Khalid Abdalla, Stephen Campbell Moore and Michael Pennington narrate the Afternoon Reading Tales From the Low Countries [link]
• The Richest Man in Britain is a sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith starring Mark Williams and Russell Tovey. Rosamund Pike is in the last episode of the series. [link]
• Penny Downie, Claudie Blakley and Daniela Denby-Ashe star in Ring Around the Bath [link]
• Julian Rhind-Tutt narrates Bulldog Drummond [link]
• Rory Kinnear, Louise Brealey and Tom Goodman-Hill star in Fair Stood The Wind For France [link]
• Simon Russell Beale narrates, and David Haig, Hugh Bonneville and Joanna Scanlon star in Leaving [link]